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Peter Pollock

Peter Maclean Pollock

Born: 30 June 1941, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Major Teams: Eastern Province, South Africa.
Known As: Peter Pollock
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Father: Pollock, SM;
Brother: Pollock, RG;


Test Debut: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, 1st Test, 1961/62
Last Test:
South Africa v Australia at Port Elizabeth, 4th Test, 1969/70

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1966

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   28   41  13   607   75*  21.67   0   2    9   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              6522  270  2806  116  24.18  6-38    9   1  56.2  2.58

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1958/59 - 1971/72)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100s   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  127  177  43  3028   79   22.59    0   54   0

                       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10
Bowling            10620  485  21.89  7-19   27   2

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1969/70 - 1971/72)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    7    7   1   158   42*  26.33   0   0    2   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling               436   213   16  13.31  5-51    1   1  27.2  2.93

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

South African cricket's debt to Peter Pollock is threefold: as the country's premier fast bowler during the 1960s, the last decade before South Africa's international isolation; as convener of selectors during the 1990s, when he gave an inexperienced team a vision and pattern (unsurprisingly based on disciplined and relentless seam bowling) that has made the side one of the game's top two teams; and as Shaun Pollock's father he played a not insignificant role in providing South Africa with its current Test captain and one of the world's leading all-rounders.

The older Pollock brother ("Pooch" to Graeme's "Little Dog") learned his trade bowling to one of cricket's greatest batsmen in the backyard of their Port Elizabeth home. Something of a tearaway as a young bowler, Pollock never really lost his killer instinct even as age and dodgy knees began to take their toll. He formed a productive partnership with the Rhodesian swing bowler Joe Partridge in Australia in 1963/64 which enabled South Africa unexpectedly to draw the series 2-2, and another at the end of the decade with a youthful Mike Procter as Australia were beaten 3-1 and 4-0 in successive home series.

For the Pollock brothers, though, few moments in their careers eclipsed the 1965 Trent Bridge Test, when Peter took 5/53 and 5/34 and Graeme made 125 and 59 as South Africa won by 94 runs, a victory that enabled them to take the three-Test series 1-0. Peter took 116 wickets in 28 Tests at 24.18 and also made two fifties to average 21.67 as a handy lower-order batsman. A trained journalist, Peter is now a lay preacher, and there are few more astute (or single-minded) judges in the game. (Peter Robinson, Copyright CricInfo April 2001)

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